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The author uses his experience as an anesthesiologist involved in music medicine to discuss the psychophysiology of perinatal stress. The use of music as an adjunct to medical care for mother and child in the prenatal and postnatal period, as well as the implications for improved outcome and medical cost savings are addressed. The importance of the fetal auditory environment as a conduit for communication and learning is also examined.

References:

Gaine, J. (1991). The effects on music on the selected stress behaviors, weight, calorie and formula intake, and length of hospital stay of premature and low birth weight neonates in a newborn intensive care unit. Journal of Music Therapy, 28(4), 180-192.

Cheek, D.B. (1995). Early use of psychotherapy in prevention of preterm labor: the application of hypnosis and ideomotor techniques with women carrying twin pregnancies. Pre- and Perinatal Psychology Journal, 10(1), Fall 1995, 5-19.

Coleman, J.M., Pratt, R.R., & Abel, H. (1996). The effects of male and female singing and speaking voices on selected behavioral and physiological measures of premature infants in the intensive care unit. Presented at the International Society for Music in Medicine symposium at San Antonio, 10/96.

Standley, J.M. (1996). The effect of music and multimodal stimulation on physiologic and developmental responses of premature infants in neonatal intensive care. Presented at the International Society for Music in Medicine symposium at San Antonio, 10/96.

Dr. Fred Schwartz is a board certified anesthesiologist, practicing at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a member of the International Society for Music in Medicine, the National Association for Music Therapy as well as APPPAH. He has used music in the operating room and delivery suite for over 20 years, and for the last 10 years has also produced music for pregnancy, childbirth and babies. Direct all correspondence to 314 Woodward Way NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30305 or email: drmusic@mindspring.com (Web Site: http://www.mindspring.com/~wombsnd).

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